ORCID Profile
0000-0002-0271-9655
Current Organisation
Swinburne University of Technology
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Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-06-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2021
Publisher: ACM
Date: 07-12-2015
Publisher: EDP Sciences
Date: 2013
Publisher: ACM
Date: 26-04-2014
Publisher: BMJ
Date: 02-02-2002
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 20-09-2021
Abstract: There is great potential for human-centred technologies to enhance wellbeing for people living with dementia and their carers. The Virtual Dementia Friendly Rural Communities (Verily Connect) project aimed to increase access to information, support, and connection for carers of rural people living with dementia, via a co-designed, integrated website/mobile application (app) and Zoom videoconferencing. Volunteers were recruited and trained to assist the carers to use the Verily Connect app and videoconferencing. The overall research design was a stepped wedge open cohort randomized cluster trial involving 12 rural communities, spanning three states of Australia, with three types of participants: carers of people living with dementia, volunteers, and health/aged services staff. Data collected from volunteers (n = 39) included eight interviews and five focus groups with volunteers, and 75 process memos written by research team members. The data were analyzed using a descriptive evaluation framework and building themes through open coding, inductive reasoning, and code categorization. The volunteers reported that the Verily Connect app was easy to use and they felt they derived benefit from volunteering. The volunteers had less volunteering work than they desired due to low numbers of carer participants they reported that older rural carers were partly reluctant to join the trial because they eschewed using online technologies, which was the reason for involving volunteers from each local community.
Publisher: ACM
Date: 22-06-2017
Publisher: ACM
Date: 02-12-2014
Publisher: ACM
Date: 07-05-2016
Publisher: ACM
Date: 26-06-2017
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-02-2015
Abstract: The purpose of this article is to consider how ethical principles can inform the effective design and implementation of technology-based interventions that aim to promote the well-being of socially isolated older adults. We evaluated a new iPad application with small groups of older adults. In this article, we reflect on the ethical issues encountered at each stage of the research process. Drawing on the ethical principles of beneficence, research merit and integrity, justice, and respect, we identify key issues to consider in the future design and implementation of social isolation interventions that use new technologies. Key issues include (a) providing sufficient support to facilitate ongoing social interactions, (b) managing older adults’ expectations, (c) providing encouragement without coercion, and (d) responding to in idual needs. We conclude that it is important to report on ethical challenges incurred when evaluating social isolation interventions to inform future research in this important area.
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Date: 03-12-2016
DOI: 10.1145/2994146
Abstract: This article examines familial interactions, which are mediated through information and communication technologies, during domestic mealtimes. We seek to understand how technologies are used and negotiated among family members and the influence of technology on commensality. We conducted an observational study of six families. The findings showed how technologies are integrated into the mealtime activities. Our study identifies domestic circumstances where background technologies are raised to the foreground, visible devices are hidden, unwanted distractions become desired, and ordinary technologies are integrated into mealtime experiences. We identify four patterns of arrangement between technologies and family members during mealtimes, and we discuss how technologies contribute to mealtime satiety and commensality. Finally, we present implications of our findings and directions for technological advancements focusing on the social and celebratory nature of family mealtimes.
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2009
Publisher: ACM Press
Date: 2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2009
Publisher: ACM
Date: 21-04-2006
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 20-06-2016
DOI: 10.1093/IWC/IWW025
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-05-2008
Publisher: ACM
Date: 08-12-2008
Publisher: ACM
Date: 12-09-2016
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-1996
DOI: 10.1177/146045829600200402
Abstract: In this paper we present a social constructionist analysis of the nursing informatics literature, analysing the literature in terms of three related rhetorics, that of (re)assurance of access, (re)assurance of competence, and (re)assurance of culture. We argue that these three rhetorics are reflexively constitutive of the deployment of information technology as an expression of instrumental rationality, discussing the epistemic roles and relationships allocated to nurses as a consequence. We dispute this meta-narrative of instrumental rationality, arguing for a political epistemology that valorizes the situation and circumstance of nursing practice.
Publisher: ACM
Date: 21-06-2014
Publisher: ACM
Date: 02-12-2014
DOI: 10.1145/2686612
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 28-10-2014
Abstract: – The purpose of this paper is to examine how pregnant women with type 1 diabetes integrate new information technology (IT) into their health management activities, using activity theory as an analytical framework. – The research is a multiple case design, based on interviews with 15 women with type 1 diabetes who were pregnant, considering pregnancy, or had recently given birth. A thematic analysis, sensitised by activity theory, was used to analyse the data. – Health management in this setting involves negotiations and contradictions across boundaries of interacting activities. Participants play an active role in managing their health and using new IT tools in particular ways to support their health management. Using new technologies creates both opportunities and challenges. IT-enabled healthcare devices and other information systems open up new treatment possibilities, but also generate new contradictions between interacting activity systems. – The research was conducted with a small s le in a specific context of health management. Further research is needed to extend the findings to other contexts. – Healthcare providers need to accommodate a bottom-up approach to the adoption and use of new technologies in settings where empowered patients play an active role in managing their health. – The findings highlight opportunities to further develop activity theory to accommodate the central role that in iduals play in resolving inherent contradictions and achieving alignment between multiple interacting activity systems when incorporating new IT tools into health management activities.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-06-2010
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 06-2010
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-2009
Abstract: The steady proliferation of media and connectivity reconstitutes domestic rhythms in ways that make them emergent, relational, negotiated, and multiple. In an attempt to capture some of the entangled dynamics characteristic of contemporary domestic chronometrics (time-measured), chronaesthetics (time-felt) and chronomanagement (time-ordered), we use the terms ‘reticular rhythms’ and ‘technologies of reticulation’. In our analysis of interviews with five families over three years we identify four interrelated forms of reticular rhythms that together constitute the rhythms of contemporary domestic life. These four are: a polyphonic drone, a polychronic dissonance, an asynchronous consonance, and an orchestrated performance. Each of these forms of rhythm are described and illustrated.
Publisher: ACM
Date: 07-12-2015
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2011
DOI: 10.1068/D11709
Abstract: Extending research into material, media, and cultural geographies of the home, our interest turns to the spatiotemporality of dwelling with information and communication technologies. We pose a number of questions: How do inhabitants and their media stuff adapt to the more rigid physical spaces of a building? How does the building respond to the more rapid changes to dwelling produced by this media stuff? And how are these differing times synchronised? In answer to these questions we present four case studies of homes in Melbourne, Australia, each representative of a particular strategy of synchronisation. They are: the found home, the imagined home, the designed home, and the renovated home. We identify logics informing these homes: the first naturalises the choices made, the second rationalises choices, and the third is one in which dwelling and (re)building are intertwined.
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Start Date: 05-2020
End Date: 04-2024
Amount: $397,793.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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